Buddhism Key Words Flashcards
What are the four sights
When siddartha left the palace - saw old age, death, sickness and an old holy man
Asceticism
A very simplistic life, strict with few pleasures - no luxuries
What’s renunciation
Turn your back on something
Siddartha renunciated his old life
The middle way
Between an ascetic and luxurious life
What are the 3 watches of the night
Knowledge of all previous lives
Things are reborn depending on karma
Causes of suffering and how to overcome it - realised the 4 truths
What are the four noble truths
Everyone suffers 4 types of physical: birth, old age, sickness, death
Cause of suffering is desire
End suffering by detaching ourselves from our desires
Follow eightfold path, we will overcome suffering
Tell me the 3 forms of mental suffering
Separation from someone/ thing you love
Contact with something you dislike
Not being able to achieve your desires
What’s Tanha
Thirst or craving of something
What are the 3 types of craving
Craving to please senses - music, food, sex
Craving to become something your not eg beautiful
Craving the non existence of something - wanting a situation to go away
What are the 3 poisons
When we can’t get the cravings we want we get
Pig - ignorance
Snake - hate
Chicken - greed
What’s nibbana
Means extinction - getting rid of it
Snuffing out craving
What’s the eightfold path
Tell you how to lead a good life
3 sections
Ethics
Right speech, action, livelihood
Meditation
Right effort, mindfulness, concentration
Wisdom
Right understanding, intention
What are the 3 marks of existence
Dukkha
Anicca
Anatta
What’s dukkha- dukkhata
Suffering
Physical or emotional
What’s viparinama-dukkha
Change, felling after a life changing event or during good times when you fear they will soon be over
What’s samkhara-dukkha
Attachment - trying to hold on to things leading to a subtle dissatisfaction with life
What’s anicca
Impermanence - everything changes even
Living things
Non living things
Our minds
Who was kisa gotami
When her child died she went to the Buddha and he said he will cure child if she got mustard seeds from a house that had not suffered
Baby died :,(
What’s anatta
The self is not fixed or permanent
What are the 5 aggregates of a human
Form - body shape
Sensation - our feelings without thinking about it
Perception - recognition of things and way we see the world
Consciousness - awareness of who we are in the world
What’s Nagasena
Used to explain anatta
Chariot can only exist in relation to parts they are made up of
There is not a seperate self independent from these parts
We are always changing and never the same person
